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Mary Ann Salinas holds up two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, Dec. 21, 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inFrom the Archives

‘Don’t kiss the mezuzah’ and other sage advice from the early days of the Covid pandemic

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett March 17, 2025March 21, 2025
An 1887 illustration of immigrants arriving in New York with the caption "Welcome to the land of freedom - An ocean steamer passing the Statue of Liberty - Scene on the steerage deck" from Frank Leslie's  Illustrated Newspaper. (Library of Congress)
Posted inFrom the Archives

In the early 1900s, Jewish immigration was at odds with Jewish assimilation

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 11, 2025February 11, 2025
Brady Corbet’s film "The Brutalist" explores the odious and corrupt world of capital, ego and power which overwhelms an architect’s resources. (Focus Features)
Posted inFilm

The Oscar race: Bob Dylan and László Tóth face the limits of Jewish reinvention

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar February 5, 2025February 5, 2025
Writer Adam Gopnik spoke at JCCSF recently. (Brigitte Lacombe)
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New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik on where Jews thrive best: Cities

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi January 27, 2025January 27, 2025
The gasometer on what was then named Army Street and today is Cesar Chavez Street in San Francisco.(OpenSFHistory/wnp14.2249)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Gas, electric… coal? Customers have long bemoaned their energy bills

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 10, 2025January 10, 2025
Sheet music for Belle Baker's hit "Eli, Eli" (Library of Congress/Irene Heskes Collection)
Posted inFrom the Archives

In 1929, Vaudeville’s Jewish ‘red hot mama’ Belle Baker was a hit in San Francisco

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 31, 2024December 31, 2024
a ceramic plate with two latkes served with sour cream and apple sauce
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Potato latkes really aren’t that old. Here’s their true history.

Rachel B. Gross by Rachel B. Gross December 30, 2024December 30, 2024
five men in WWII-era US Army combat uniforms work together to erect a flagpole atop a pile of rubble
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San Francisco getting a block named for famed Iwo Jima photographer Joe Rosenthal

Aaron Levy-Wolins by Aaron Levy-Wolins November 26, 2024December 12, 2024
The 1902 funeral of Rabbi Jacob Joseph (Wikimedia Commons)
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How the biggest antisemitic riot in America transformed Jewish history 

by Benjamin Ivry November 26, 2024November 26, 2024
A painting of a gladiator, clad in gold, standing over his defeated opponent. He looks up at the crowd, many of whom hold their hands up in the thumbs-down sign.
Posted inFilm

There aren’t Jewish fighters in Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II.’ But what about in ancient Rome?

by Luke Tress November 25, 2024November 25, 2024

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